Publications Relating to Prints and Photographs Division Collections
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730
The following publications describe and, in most cases, illustrate
material in the custody of the Prints and Photographs Division.
There is no comprehensive published catalog of the more than thirteen
million items held by the Division.
Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States.
By Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress; historical
commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York: Knopf, 1997. 339 p. [Call
number: E178.5.V57 1997 P&P] Note: Also available
as a CD-ROM.
Guide to the Special Collections of Prints & Photographs
in the Library of Congress. Compiled by Paul Vanderbilt.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1955. 200 p. [Call number:
NE53.W2A52 P&P]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated
Guide. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995. 80
p. [Call number: NE53.W3L49 1995 P&P] Note: Also
available on World Wide Web at: guide/
Special Collections in the Library of Congress: a Selective
Guide. Compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, DC: Library
of Congress, 1980. 464 p. [Call number: Z733.U58U54 1980 P&P]
Treasures of the Library of Congress. By Charles
A. Goodrum. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1991. 344 p. [Call number:
Z733.U58G66 1991 P&P]
Viewpoints: a Selection from the Pictorial Collections of
the Library of Congress. By Alan Fern, Milton Kaplan,
and the staff of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library
of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976. 223 p.
[Call number: E178.5.U54 1976 P&P]
The White House : Resources for Research at the Library
of Congress. By John Guidas; essays by Marvin W. Kranz,
Samuel V. Daniel III, and Marilyn Ibach. Washington, DC: Library
of Congress, 1992. 150 p. [Call number: F204.W5 P&P]
American Political Prints, 1766-1876: a Catalog of the Collections
in the Library of Congress. By Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991. 638 p. [Call number: E183.3.R45
1991 P&P] Note: Entries from this catalog can
be searched in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, American
Political Prints Collection (catalog.html).
American Printmaking before 1876: Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy:
Papers Presented at a Symposium Held at the Library of Congress,
June 12 and 13, 1972. Washington, DC: Library of Congress,
1975. 79 p. [Call number: NE506.A43 P&P]
American Prints in the Library of Congress; a Catalog of
the [Fine Print] Collection. Compiled by Karen F. Beall.
Baltimore, MD: Published for the Library of Congress by the Johns
Hopkins Press, [1970]. 568 p. [Call number: NE505.A47 P&P]
The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints; a Checklist
of 1765-1790 Graphics in the Library of Congress. Compiled
by Donald H. Cresswell, with a forward by Sinclair H. Hitchings.
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975. 455 p.
[Call number: E209.U54 1975 P&P]
Charles Fenderich, Lithographer of American Statesmen.
By Alice Lee Parker and Milton Kaplan; edited with a foreword by
Lillian B. Miller. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
68 p. + 3 microfiche. [Call number: NE2364.5.F46A4 1978 P&P]
Currier & Ives : a Catalogue Raisonné. Compiled
by Gale Research Company; with an introduction by Bernard F. Reilly.
Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1983. 2 v. (1029 p.). [Call number:
NE2312.C8A4 1983a P&P]
Graphic Sampler. Compiled by Renata V. Shaw. Washington,
DC: Library of Congress : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.
367 p. [Call number: NE400.G7 P&P]
Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada:
a Checklist of Maps in the Collections of the Library of Congress,
Geography and Map Division. Compiled by John R. Hebért.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress : U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1984. 181 p. Rev. ed. of: Panoramic maps of Anglo-American
cities. 1974. Includes 120 panoramic maps which are in P&P. [Call
number: Z6027.U5L5 1984 P&P] Note: These maps
are included in an American Memory web site: Panoramic Maps:
1847-1929 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html.)
Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Printed Broadsides: a Guide
to the Collections in the Library of Congress. Compiled
by Paul Connor and Jill Roberts for the American Folklife Center;
introduction by Don Yoder. Washington, DC: Library of Congress,
1988. 48 p. [Call number: ND3035.P4L48 1988 P&P]
Popular & Applied Graphic Art in the Library of Congress.
Brochure. [Washington, DC]: Library of Congress, [1979]. [12] p.
[Call number: P&P Ref. #33]
Posada's Mexico. Edited by Ron Tyler. Washington,
DC: Library of Congress, 1979. 315 p. [Call number: NE546.P6A4
1979 P&P]
The Poster Collection in the Library of Congress.
Brochure. [Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1979]. 16 p. [Call
number: P&P Ref. #41.]
Posters of the WPA. By Christopher DeNoon; introduction
by Francis V. O'Connor. Los Angeles, CA: Wheatley Press, in association
with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1987. 175 p.
[Call number: NC1807.U5D46 1987 P&P]
America's Yesterdays: Images of Our Lost Past Discovered
in the Photographic Archives of the Library of Congress.
By Oliver Jensen; photographic research by Shirley L. Green.
New York, NY: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1978. 352 p. [Call
number: E178.5.J43 P&P]
The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, 1927-1943.
Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston; edited by Janet M. Gwaltney;
with an introduction by C. Ford Peatross. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey,
1985. 124 microfiche. [Call number: Microfiche (w) 86/19 (N) P&P]
A Century of Photographs, 1846-1946. Selected from
the collections of the Library of Congress; compiled by Renata
V. Shaw. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. 211 p. [Call
number: TR6.U62D572 P&P]
Frissell, Toni. Photographs, 1933-1967. Introduction
by George Plimpton; foreword by Sidney Frissell Stafford. New York:
Doubleday in association with the Library of Congress, 1994. 152
p. [Call number: TR653.F75 1994 P&P]
Photographs by the Wright Brothers: Prints from the Glass
Negatives in the Library of Congress: a Micropublication Commemorating
the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the First Flight by the Wright
Brothers, December 17, 1903. Washington, DC: Library of
Congress, 1978. 20 p. + 5 microfiche. Reproduced from the collection
in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.
[Call number: TL521.W74 1978 P&P] Note: 301
images from this collection have been scanned from the microfiche
by another organization and mounted on a web site entitled, "To
Fly is Everything" under the listing "The Wright Brothers Photographs" (http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Wrights/Wright_photos.html).
The site is not maintained by the Library of
Congress, but it does cite Library of Congress reproduction numbers
(e.g. LC-USZ62-56239), with which photographic copies can be
ordered through the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
Pioneering Image: Celebrating 150 Years of American Photography.
By Jerald C. Maddox. New York, NY: Universe, 1989. (Pages unnumbered.)
[Call number TR23.M33 1989 P&P]
A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin
Johnston, 1889-1910. By Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock.
New York: Harmony Books, [1974]. 182 p. [Call number: TR140.J64
A34 1974 P&P]
Washingtoniana: Photographs: Collections in the Prints and
Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. By Kathleen
Collins. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1989. 310 p. [Call
number: F195 .L66 1989 P&P]
Separate publications lists are available on the following topics:
- African American history (also available on LC web site: 063_afr.html)
- Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection
(also available on LC web site: 052_fsa.html#bib).
- Civil War photographs (expanded version available on LC web
site via Prints and Photographs Online Catalog in Civil War Photographs
collection documents: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpbibintro.html)
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering
Record (available on LC web site via Prints and Photographs Online
Catalog HABS/HAER Collection documents: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/hhhtml/hhbib.html)
- Native Americans
- Visual Materials: Processing & Cataloging Bibliography: vmbib.html
- Collections available on microfilm.
Prepared by: Maja Keech, Reference Specialist. Last revised:
2/99
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